Quotes About Responsibility

If Fang is in any way harmed while I'm gone-if he gets a hangnail-you won't see another morning. Are we clear on that?

The trick to having obedient, unquestioning children was to have death be the other option

There's nothing more dangerous than than someone trying to act for the greater good.

But if I could do anything? Maybe you would want to be able to save the world, the Voice said. Did you ever think of that? No. I frowned. Leave that to the grown-ups. But grown-ups are the ones destroying the world, the Voice said. Think about it.

Anne Frank wrote, 'How true Daddy's words were when he said: all children must look after their own upbringing. Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

Don't drive like you own the road; drive like you own the car.

We all make choices. We all have to live with them.

Like, if you're gonna make a decision about me and my life for my own good without consulting me, I'd better be dying and unconscious, and you'd better be following carefully written instructions. ~Max

Society prepares the crime; the criminal only commits it.

one father is better than 100 head masters

If I could run the world, I'd find another way to treat most of these criminals—most of them, not all of them—but we find widespread solutions to widespread problems in this country, so we just build big prisons and stick everyone inside them and, for the most part, forget about them once they're gone. Noah

why does doing the right thing feel so bad?

FYI, car crashes kill way more kids than cancer does. Those crosses you see on the side of the highway, the little white ones hung with fading silk flowers? They're for people my age. ("People who were texting," my dad liked to remind me—because he never wanted to blame Budweiser for anything.)

Someone who shakes a tree needs to be ready for what might fall on him. - Craig Carney

Ninety percent of people want the direction of their life to change, but they forget they're the ones driving the car. You have to turn the wheel.

I was going to use this as a way to beg you not to go to New York," his wife said, "but that would be useless. In fact, selfish. Our country needs you to go. The world does. Putin is a wolf. It's time he learns what a sheepdog is all about. Somebody has to do it, and it's you.

While God had not forsaken this place, He was clearly expecting us to hold up our end, as it appeared He was needed elsewhere.

everyone around, telling everyone what to do. "Move this over there! Move that over here!" While Roger is busy playing the role

They shouldn't be in here daydreaming and thinking on their own!

If a parent ignored, abandoned, or abused their child, an angry seed was planted that could grow into a poisonous tree. I knew that whether a parent was rich and snubbed their kid for expensive wine or they were poor and snubbed them for cheap crack, the message to the kid was the same: You're not as important to me as my next high.

If you've screwed up, admit it and face the consequences. If you've crossed the line, admit it and face the consequences. If you've had lapses in judgment or viewed something with eyes full of prejudice, admit it and face the consequences. "Any other course of action is deception and cover-up, which only makes the consequences worse for you in the long run," my grandmother told me when I was a boy. "Deal with the mess you've made, Alex, and move on.

In situations where the sane flee from danger, law enforcement officers sprint to engage it.

It's hard to explain to people the incredible emotional burden officers carry after enduring these types of incidents, especially when children are involved.

if a cop mom does the same, then whoa, there's something seriously wrong here.